@Bling5
FYI Dairy is only nutrients. Cooked veggies can be great.
yeah i saw the rat studies with how they lost fat on coca cola. show me anyone who has done that and thrived.
Me.
and i dont think fruit should be meals. fruit can accompany a meal and help with digestion (e.g. digestive enzymes in pineapple etc.) but it is a waste of an opportunity to make fruit a meal. again talking about body recomp an performance. not leisurely vacation diet. you would get way more out of using that opportunity to get nutrient density in.
Wonderful point. The most consistent way to improve metabolism and digestion is a well balanced macro meal. Including balancing micronutrients when possible.
Isolated fruit/sugar sources are fine as a snack — but I’ve found a tiny bit of protein in some form, to be handy between meals to balance high carb snacks.
add cooked leaves and cabbages and bell peppers and lettuces and stuff. ive never experienced the downsides of these that people on rpf postulated about for years. in fact i did way better when i added all this stuff i took out after browsing rpf and taking ray's words too literally and personally
Cooked veggies with all the tasty cofactors like a smidge of butter and cheese are great, and a great way to increase salt and gelatin intake in a palatable manner. There are methods to producing the vegetable stock in a safe manner, but for many people, including myself, something like cabbage is very powerfully anti-thyroid. For many people like myself, almost any amount of nightshades like bell peppers are terrible on digestion and brain fog. Of course I want to live my life so I trial and error where I can get away with something to make enjoyable food, but due to the anti nutrient factors, that’s very important for anyone to be aware of. If I were OP, I think it would behoove to look for recipes that remove goitrogens and phytoestrogens — be that boiling for x time and tossing the water, etc.
With that said, there is no nutrient missing from a diet of weekly oysters and liver, with daily dairy and juice consumption — way cheaper, too.
You may have a decent metabolism/resilient digestion, and the amounts you’re consuming aren’t impacting you. I know there are suggestions Ray makes that I don’t stick to religiously, and that’s where I’ve learned to be mindful of context (that basically means “what can I get away with lol”).
https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/vegetables.shtml
